Social justice liberals, otherwise known as “the media,” are laying the groundwork for another round of national race rioting by insisting that any outcome other than a top-to-bottom conviction in the Derek Chauvin trial is yet more proof that this is a racist country.
To wit, they even say that true, demonstrable, irrefutable facts in the case are — what else? — racist.
The liberal Media Matters for America organization on Thursday called it a “blatant lie” and a “racist myth” that George Floyd, who died last year while being subdued by Chauvin and other Minneapolis police officers, had heavy amounts of opioids and methamphetamine in his system.
Hmm, interesting. The Hennepin County medical examiner actually said — let me check my notes — ah, yes, that Floyd had 11 nanograms per milliliter of fentanyl in his body. The examiner further added, “Signs associated with fentanyl toxicity include severe respiratory depression … and death.” And for the 11 ng/ml of the drug in Floyd’s system, the examiner also noted that “in fatalities from fentanyl, blood concentrations … have been reported as low as 3 ng/mL.”
In other words, Floyd had more than three times the amount of fentanyl in his body than the level known to have caused deaths by overdose.
Racist!
That Floyd was a drug abuser doesn’t mean he was a demon worthy of extermination. Earlier in the trial, his girlfriend gave heartbreaking testimony that the two of them suffered dependency on opioids together, finding themselves in and out of rehab throughout the course of their relationship. People struggling with addiction deserve sympathy and help, not abuse and scorn.
But this trial involves determining the cause and manner of Floyd’s death. If the drugs combined with his severe heart condition killed him, the defense argues, Chauvin isn’t guilty of murder.
MSNBC’s in-house race hustler Al Sharpton further fanned the flames on Friday, declaring, “I mean, if we can’t get some justice here, I don’t know what it takes.”
By “some justice,” Sharpton means a murder conviction, because, well, duh, Chauvin is guilty! Give the reverend a piece of that justice! Give him some!
Sorry, Al, but, as has always been the case for anyone actually bothering to watch the trial, the defense hasn’t even presented its own case yet and has still managed to raise all kinds of doubt about what killed Floyd. And contrary to the media narrative that Chauvin is obviously guilty of excessive use of force, the defense has even managed to get every single use-of-force expert called by the prosecution to concede that there are circumstances under which a police officer would have been justified in doing exactly what Chauvin did on that fateful day in May of 2020.
Yeah, but don’t let the facts get in the way. Those are racist.
